Keith: Thanks a bunch! Paul: Replacement fork sourcing seems to be a fine art perhaps best left to antiquarians and archivists! It is indeed fun to work on an old frame, install some contemporary parts and get to something practical and appealing. Enjoy your ride!
On Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 11:36:56 AM UTC-4 Paul in Dallas wrote: > Eric, another nicely done build! > > Thank you for sharing these projects. > You really excel on your video documenting of them. > > I'm sure the friend appreciates all the work and attention to detail you > out into it. > > I agree on the vintage Suntour power shifters. > They are terrific! > > It can be a challenge finding the right replacement fork for some of these > vintage bike builds. > > I'm still looking for the right one for my Austro Daimler Puch Vent Noir > II. > > Last week I built up an early 80"s Univega Gran Premio from the bare frame > that came with a non original fork. That included fork turned out to be a > narrow .833. I wish the eBay seller had mentioned that. > > It turned out I had a suitable fork > (of course wrong color) in the parts stash. > For now I stripped that fork to bare finish. > > I really enjoy your builds of these vintage bikes. > > I enjoy the process as well but I must rein it in. > I counted 11 rideable bikes in my very crowded garage. Most of them are > from the 80s. > (Not to mention 5 or 6 frames I must decide what to do with ) > > I hope to get in a nice ride on one of them today. > > Paul in Dallas > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c5ace17b-474c-4026-a7c7-56b7a90ddf54n%40googlegroups.com.
